Area: Tech

13.12.23

Big Tech

Toxicity and trauma: a day in the life of a dating app moderator

‘It's messed up … they don't think about the safety for their agents’

20.11.23

Big Tech

Behind every swipe: the workers toiling to keep dating apps safe

Harsh targets and distressing content have left mental scars on a global workforce of content moderators

04.10.23

Big Tech

What is the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory?

False conspiracy theories around 15-minute cities see a secret plot behind the proposals to place draconian restrictions on the movement of citizens

27.07.23

Big Tech

What are influence operations and why are we investigating them?

Attempts to manipulate voters threaten elections around the world. So we’re launching a new project to help you understand how you could be targeted

28.06.23

Big Tech

Class action suit launched over Teleperformance working conditions

The lawsuit cited TBIJ reporting about the traumatic content Teleperformance workers in Colombia were exposed to when working as TikTok moderators

19.04.23

Big Tech

Teleperformance signs ‘historic agreement’ allowing Colombian workers to unionise

Outsourcing giant’s deal comes after TBIJ investigation into working conditions faced by company's TikTok moderators

14.02.23

Big Tech

‘Please Acknowledge the Dick’: Inside a catfishing factory

Remote workers are being paid a pittance to play fictional women messaging men who sign up for sex-chat services

29.01.23

Big Tech

‘Sham credibility’: how UK shell companies fuel ‘pig-butchering’ crypto scams

Criminal gangs are exploiting lax regulation to use the UK as a base for carrying out industrial-scale fraud

14.12.22

Big Tech

Meta sued for £2bn over Ethiopia hate speech revealed by Bureau

The petition, filed in the Kenyan courts on Tuesday, cites the Bureau and Observer’s reporting from February, which told the stories of Ethiopian civilians who say their family members were killed as...

21.11.22

Big Tech

The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers

20.10.22

Big Tech

Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators

Moderators told the Bureau they faced inadequate psychological support to deal with the endless stream of disturbing content and had to work to gruelling performance targets

25.09.22

Big Tech

Unholy alliance: the far-right religious network attacking reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights

CitizenGo network combines the US Christian right, militant European Catholics, Russian Orthodox hardliners and sanctioned oligarchs

30.03.22

Big Tech

US investment firms prop up ad revenue for Russian propaganda sites

Yandex, a company owned almost entirely by Western investors is still helping sites pushing false Russian claims make thousands of dollars a day through on-site adverts

20.02.22

Big Tech

Facebook accused by survivors of letting activists incite ethnic massacres with hate and misinformation in Ethiopia

Fact checkers and civil society organisations describe company's virtually 'non-existent' support for their work tackling misinformation

09.02.22

Big Tech

Twitter cuts ties to Swiss tech company after Bureau investigation

Twitter is distancing itself from Swiss tech company Mitto after Bloomberg and Bureau investigation. Google has also passed on concerns

04.02.22

Our Impact

Community power, corporate change and courtroom justice: the Bureau’s impact in 2021

Unearthing facts, uncovering wrongdoing, collaboration and meaningful storytelling made the Bureau’s journalism more impactful than ever in 2021

06.12.21

Big Tech

Spam, Spies, SMS: how it works

Little-known bulk messaging companies use the access they’ve brokered to hundreds of phone networks to send millions of messages cheaply and quickly around the world. But this efficiency comes at a co...